Bio104 Laboratory ? Student?s Guide
John Jay College, C.U.N.Y
Lab #4 ? Page 1
Lab #4: Use of the Microscope; Bacteria and Protists
I. The Domains of Life
A. There are three major branches, or Domains, on the tree of life: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.
B. It turns out that most of the living things on earth, comprising most of the biomass, are microscopic
single-celled species! Today we will look at unicellular examples of two different domains: Bacteria
and Eukarya.
C. Protists are eukaryotes and most (but not all) are single-celled. However, some of the single-celled
protest species can exist in colonies that resemble a multicellular organism, but this is not true